NaevaTheRat
@NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org
- Comment on Peter Dutton says he'll never stand in front of an Aboriginal flag as prime minister 1 week ago:
It is weapons-grade stupid that this is a thing.
- Six years to create, two days to dismantle. What happens now Queensland’s Indigenous truth-telling inquiry has been scrapped?www.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 0 comments
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- NSW government rules out decriminalisation at drug summit. Prefers strip searching tweens and helping teenagers poison themselves.www.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to news@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Stupid Sexy Mice 2 weeks ago:
log off
- Comment on Australia changes position to support [UN] vote demanding Israel end occupation of Gaza, East Jerusalem and West Bank 2 weeks ago:
Just in time to have crushed protests, fired media figures, supplied weapons (I’m sorry, supplied parts of weapons platforms. Very different), and starvation to have kicked in.
One must hope that better late than never holds true.
- Comment on Judas 2 weeks ago:
Yeah the hair isn’t exactly, but the T and HGH is.
I think he might have had maxillofacial surgery too, but it could just be the HGH.
- Comment on back to the ocean we go 3 weeks ago:
Because we are ugly, mutant fish.
- Comment on The prime minister's 'oh shit' moment when Fatima Payman helped sink key [environment] law 3 weeks ago:
Politics is all ego and tongue punching the starfish. You have to be fairly derranged and self important to think you ought to be taken seriously on a national level.
- Comment on Police officer Kristian White found guilty of manslaughter after tasering 95yo Clare Nowland 3 weeks ago:
The only part of your comment that’s sane:
It’s unfortunate she fell and died, but that could happen any time anyone is tazered.
As the court notes, they had the option to retreat, they could wait and attempt other things. Nobody was in danger, it was against police policy to use a taser in that situation. Even the police training thinks it was excessive.
You are just wrong.
- Comment on Kristian White: Officer guilty of killing 95-year-old with Taser - BBC News 3 weeks ago:
Good bloody news. I admit I am surprised it stuck. Hopefully appeals fail.
Call it manslaughter if you like but he straight up bloody murdered her.
- Comment on Labor, Coalition to suspend Lidia Thorpe from the Senate after she tore up a motion by Pauline Hanson 3 weeks ago:
Someone should just RIP up Paulein Hanson.
- Comment on Anon gets home from a long day at work 3 weeks ago:
collecting stuff you just buy is simply conspicuous consumption. The same sort of status seeking behaviour that leads to buying mansions or overpriced cars.
This person enjoys hot sauce, and they enjoy being socially rewarded for buying absurd things, and they enjoy showing off.
- Comment on Sydney student banned from year 12 formal for wearing Palestinian scarf 4 weeks ago:
I’m starting to think that goon is on the take with some of the absolutely baffling disinformation they’re spouting.
- Comment on Sydney University academics pursued for speaking out against Gaza atrocities 4 weeks ago:
you think total Palestinian casualties are less than 7 thousand?
- Comment on Sydney University academics pursued for speaking out against Gaza atrocities 4 weeks ago:
It is impossible to interpret this in good faith. The German government has obvious conflicts and should not be considered representative of international law. It’s as arbitrary as saying “Iran says the IDF eats babies”.
The UN: ohchr.org/…/un-special-committee-finds-israels-wa…
The ICC: www.icj-cij.org/case/192
- Comment on What's dodgy about the proposed Australian political donations reforms? | Constitutional Clarion 4 weeks ago:
I am exposed as a hack and a fraud.
- Comment on What's dodgy about the proposed Australian political donations reforms? | Constitutional Clarion 4 weeks ago:
Hey that’s nice to say. I saw how much they were replying and assumed they cared, there’s also a certain amount of theatre in online discourse. While it’s nice to imagine that when you write to someone you could change their mind the reality is that is unlikely, however spectators who are less involved might. I care a lot about democracy, I want good discourse on measures I see as antidemocratic. I don’t think parliament will ever implement democracy, but it sure as hell could make it a lot harder to at a future date.
- Comment on What's dodgy about the proposed Australian political donations reforms? | Constitutional Clarion 4 weeks ago:
I don’t want to spruke the australian government (frankly I find it fucking infuriating when people dismiss criticisms of this society by going "Yeah but at least we’re not the USA) however our parliaments function quite differently. I would not exactly call them democratic but they are closer to a democracy than the government you are likely familiar with. Unfortunately we don’t have multimember seats in the lower house so you have completely disgusting stuff like the greens getting ~18% of the popular vote but only having like 1/151 seats. I’m sure you can relate to that sort of frustration.
Recently, particularly in the senate which does have multimember seats, minor party influence has been growing. LibLab fucking hate this, so goddamned much. They have pushed through a series of electoral reforms (some decent I will give them that) with the goal of restricting the influence of minor parties. A recent one which disgusts me is requiring a degree of membership in order to run on the ballot as a party and not independents which would require something like running in 6 or 7 seats (keep in mind there are 151 seats overall, that’s a large number) before the members:seats ratio approached the current members:seats ratio of labor. A party with a like 120 year history that runs everywhere.
That’s a completely absurd requirement that absolutely scuttles the ability of an interest group representing say an area of a city from running as a clearly identifiable party.
I am deeply sceptical of their reforms for reasons like this.
- Comment on NSW government to cut off public access to Newcastle harbour ahead of peaceful climate protest 4 weeks ago:
Sometimes I look at the freedoms we enjoy and how hesitant the governments that claim us are to deploy force and I think “Did this place really use to be a penal colony?”.
- Comment on What's dodgy about the proposed Australian political donations reforms? | Constitutional Clarion 4 weeks ago:
Hey so there’s this idea people sometimes react with that if someone who is stupid or evil or whatever has some idea, then the opposite of that idea must be a good idea.
This is not a good way to think. While if you find yourself on the same side of an issue as your political enemies you should probably reflect over whether you’re being manipulated it is not necessarily true that you are.
Clive Palmer opposes this bill sure, he says for various reasons. That doesn’t mean those reasons are bad reasons to oppose the bill, or that the bill is good. LibLab are using the threat of billionaires interferring in elections to try push this through, if they are so confident it is a good bill why are they rushing it through and why do they both agree with it?
It is worth examining how this bill will function and whether the good bits are worth the side effects. LibLab are not champions of democracy, they fucking hate it lmao and they have enormous contempt for the public and minor parties so we should not assume they think this bill will lead to a better democracy.
- Comment on NACC under fire as Commissioner Paul Brereton found guilty of misconduct - Michael West 4 weeks ago:
Federal Agency Reconnoitering Corruption Examiners
- Comment on Australia backs UN resolution recognising ‘permanent sovereignty’ of Palestinians in major departure 5 weeks ago:
Labor is certainly trying to stop the rise of the greens.
- Comment on Australia backs UN resolution recognising ‘permanent sovereignty’ of Palestinians in major departure 5 weeks ago:
Kinda neat, a bit weasely in a few places. Our Lords and Masters stance has always been Palestinian sovereignty under a two state, but usually they vote against or abstain from any UN resolution iirc.
Sign that the anglosphere is turning against the USA on this issue?
- Comment on Neo-Nazi leader Thomas Sewell says he could 'become a terrorist' as far right rhetoric escalates and movement grows 5 weeks ago:
The cops necessarily lean fash mate. Yeah not all, but they’re statistically a hell of a lot more sympathetic to nazis than like unions or students.
- Comment on Neo-Nazi leader Thomas Sewell says he could 'become a terrorist' as far right rhetoric escalates and movement grows 5 weeks ago:
What they’re very good at is not being punished by the law or the cops. Sewer doesn’t deserve credit for that.
You’re right, in that it’s the complicity of the cops and judiciary in allowing these sort of things to happen. However I do think Nazi ringleaders in general have a good understanding of both that the law is this way and how to manipulate the legal system.
Like they dress in suits with a clean haircut and stuff when appearing in court and plead good character, they front the media well etc.
None of this would work if anyone did due diligence but they intuitively know they wont.
Having odious politics and being a slimey coward doesn’t mean he’s stupid.
- Comment on Neo-Nazi leader Thomas Sewell says he could 'become a terrorist' as far right rhetoric escalates and movement grows 5 weeks ago:
This guy is like the Nazi ringleader in aus. He is a cunning little thing, very good at walking the line without ever crossing it.
For example, when he recently led a gang in attacking some people filming a group of the shits hiking he himself was careful not to actually get hugely involved in taking their car keys and attacking them. Only getting 7 days in gaol.
Sewell was in contact with the Christchurch mosque shooter too.
If there was any justice in the world he’d be cut off from using the internet or running social groups, but those are penalties we only levy against people holding climate rallys or sharing films.
- Neo-Nazi leader Thomas Sewell says he could 'become a terrorist' as far right rhetoric escalates and movement growswww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to news@aussie.zone | 8 comments
- Comment on Dutton is already testing Trump's campaign slogans 5 weeks ago:
“the Australian public” is 23 million people from different backgrounds, in different environments, facing different stresses.
There is no cohesive identity, just human drives. We are animals, often very gentle and nice animals, but we are animals. We carry the heritage of our ancestors. Fear and doubt, fear of the other, selfishness these are all drives we have and they are easy to play into. Of course it will work, trump isn’t a wizard, the rise of fascism is a systematic problem.
The question is will someone else use a more effective political strategy? Neoliberal politics largely hasn’t been able to because it is neoliberal ideologies which have lead to this world where people are noticing life get harder each year and the upper rungs of society become increasingly unattainable.
“be happy with what you have peasant, at least we won’t do purges” is just… deeply uninspiring.
- Comment on Asshole Lab Rat 1 month ago:
huh, this story is really old and of dubious origin but afaict the original websites are down and I can’t be bothered going into archives.